interlapidate

English

Etymology

From English inter- (“between”) + Latin lapis (“stone”, stem: lapid-) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs), after interfoliate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɚˈlapɪdeɪt/

Verb

interlapidate (third-person singular simple present interlapidates, present participle interlapidating, simple past and past participle interlapidated)

1. (nonce word, transitive) To fit in between each other like stones in a building.
   • 1814 November 2nd, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Justice Fletcher, in Essays on His Own Times, published 1850, page 658:

     Combinations of the mechanics and lower craftsmen…interlapidated and cemented as they all are, each in the club of his own trade.

Translations

fit in between each other like stones in a building

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Interla·pidate, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 400, column 2.